New York - June 2015 - Day 4

Since Steph will be living on Long Island we got a hotel near where they will live.  We found the nearest train station so we could ride in to the city.

 

Times Square

The Times Square Elmo is kinda creepy, but not to Shad.

The Flat Iron Building.

We ate lunch at Eataly - one of our favorite places.

9/11 Memorial

Gelato in Little Italy

It was raining in Central Park

 

 

Shad had this to say, "mom, the blue guy cut my ticket".  We were laughing so hard after he said that.

Day 5 we just went to Church and then Dave and I had to fly back to Utah.  I think Steph, Jared and Shad are going to have a great three years in New York.  We will miss them, but it is a fun place to visit, for sure.

New York - June 2015 - Day 3

Jared had flown back to Utah to get their car.  Stephanie was trying to get her New York Nurses license.  So she spent the day at the hotel on the computer.  Dave, Shad and I drove out to the Hamptons.

 

First we stopped at Sag Harbor.

We ate lunch with this view.

Lobster bisque and lobster roll.

We seldom let our own kids ride on the toys in stores.  We can't resist when a grandchild asks us though.

Downtown Sag Harbor had several.  We let Shad ride on them all.

Then we drove all the way to the end of Long Island to Montauk to see the lighthouse. (Shad chose a baseball bat for his souvenir.

Dave and I took turns going to the top of the lighthouse.

The stairs would have been too difficult for little Shad.

He was content to play ball in the shadow of the lighthouse.

And he was pretty happy when we stopped in South Hampton for ice cream, too.

New York - June 2015 - Day 2

I have always wanted to go to Coney Island.  It was kind of sketchy.  But I still liked it.

 

On the boardwalk.

Shad was so excited to ride the carousel.

We then took the subway from this station (so ghetto) to Manhattan.

We ate street food in Bryant Park.

Hundreds of people were doing yoga in the park.

We took a quick glance at Grand Central Station.

And ran in to the original Macy's Dept Store.  I love the old wooden escalators there.

Shad was excited to ride this trashy thing at the local Walmart near our hotel.

New York - June 2015- Day 1

 

More June 2015

I babysat Mitt and Shad for a couple of hours one afternoon.

They had fun in Lily and Olivia's room.

We took Logan on his birthday date.  He chose McDonald's for dinner.

Then we hurriedly took him to pick out a present.  We had to get him to his last t-ball game of the season.

Shad is proud of his watch.  He says it is just like Grandpa's

 

 

Steph and Jared had already flown to New York.  We had Shad for a couple of days before heading out with him.  He cleans up pretty nicely for church.

Just a quick ride before we leave.

Father's Day 2015

All of the fathers out at my parent's house.

We went in on a flag for Dave's dad for Father's Day. 

The next day Shad and I took the train down to Salt Lake, where Dave picked us up.

Then we drove to the airport to head out to New York.  We put Shad in his pajamas before the flight took off.

 

We knew it would be a long night.  He slept right through all of the landing, picking up luggage and getting a rental car.  Yay for Benadryl.